Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-25 | Page 6 | Meaningless Logic

MEANINGLESS LOGIC WAR JAR has had many defenses uttered in its behalf eha f for what hat real purpose no thinking thinking think think- l ing g person can f fathom 1 Apropos of th the forthcoming armament conference some of these arguments spring up anew Sir Arthur Keith is one of the latest defenders He is isan isan isn an n eminent scientist of Great Britain In n attempting to justify warfare he told a group at the University of Aberdeen that war is natures nature's pruning hook that hook that it is necessary to to take care of the surplus humans One would expect a scientist to stay in inthe the straight and narrow path of science Instead in instead instead in- in stead of in uncertain ways Science must be logical Nature does have many pruning hooks Plants many of them die every year instead of living on and scattering their seed as aswell aswell well ell to create an uncontrolled growth Branches on trees and bushe dry up and arid i break off Too men and women become old and die But war unlike nature does not remove II the unfit It takes the fittest youths in the age of their greatest promise It leaves be behind behind behind be- be hind the aged the weak weal and decrepit Everything Everything Everything Every Every- thing about war is wasteful Nature Is provi provi- dent War is not a pruning hook it it is a pestilence come to thwart nature If the disarmament conf conference rence does no more than to drive this fact home in the minds of the notable men and women who will attend it the gathering will have forwarded the cause of peace even though it be long in coming